Can anyone identify what this lever is for ?

SARG · Nov 8, 2009

I have a 48 or 49 Brockway and I cannot figure out what this pictured lever is for. I initially thought it was a Hi-Lo range lever put there is no difference in the speeds from forward or rear position.

Then I thought it may be a lock lever for the axle but I'm unsure.

I do recall many years ago Dad had gotten the tractor "stuck" in gear and a mechanic from a local tractor shop had come and I saw him with the shift assembly torn apart and was prying on the gears with a pry bar. So perhaps it is a range lever and it has been disconnected.

Can anyone help ?

BCnT · Nov 8, 2009

not familar with tractor at all but my guess would be pto if it has one.

HughB · Nov 8, 2009

There is a Brockway picture under "Lesser known classics". Nov 7th.
I remember the old Brockway semi truck tractors but didn't know
they made a farm tractor. Autocars, Diamond Rio's, the old Mack
that took both hands to shift gears. Today they have automatic
transmissions.

phillip d · Nov 8, 2009

The way it feeds into the rear end it may either have a 2 speed final drive,much like a ruxel in an old truck,or maybe a diff lock?

HughB · Nov 8, 2009

Correction. It was the Diamond T and the Rio. Brother in law drove
a Rio. Called it a pug nose Rio not a cab over. Memory is
not what it used to be. The lever could be a two speed
rearend that has been disconnected.

MeanGene1 · Nov 8, 2009

Diamond T and REO (stands for Ransom E Olds, same guy from Oldsmobile, the owner) were both absorbed by White, and folded together to form Diamond REO
The band "REO Speedwagon" took their name from the early REO "Speedwagon" model

HENRY E NC · Nov 8, 2009

I beleive thats a 2 range shift lever may be disconnected. I remember an old tractor (Older than me) the neighbor had and there was the same sort of lever on his shift module. Changed it from hi to lo , both slow. cant re,emember what kind of tractor it was. Henry

Fordman6442 · Nov 8, 2009

If I remember that was the one that released the trailer on the hill when yor MIL bitched too much.

buickanddeere · Nov 8, 2009

Is there a place for a belt pulley on there somewhere?

730d se · Nov 8, 2009

REO Speedwagon 1978 Album:
"You can tune a piano but you can"t tuna fish!"

Gene Dotson · Nov 9, 2009

Just got answer back from my brother who is restoring a Brockway tractor. He says the lever is for the PTO, even if the tractor is not equipped with one.

He also states that the Brockway tractor has no connection to Brockway trucks and they were first made in 1949... Gene

Anonymous-0 · Nov 9, 2009

Tuna..The way things are going out in the briny getting harder to find them also, The appetite is the problem, or is it population.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 24, 2009

This lever is for the PTO. I have a 49G #76. I talked with Al Brockway the son of the man who built these tractors about 4 years ago. He has the last one his father built in in 1959. There is a belt drive pulley that attaches to the back of the tractor behind the differential. Mine has both the PTO and the belt pulley. If you can get a copy of Antique Power magazine. They have back issues of a complete write up on these little orphan tractors. These tractors are scarce because they only made 458 tractors in the 10 years they were in business. They built about 100 the first year. But because of post war economics they could not compete. Give it lots of TLC its a keeper. Derrick

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